Meticulous and exhaustive, Craig Keener's 4-volume commentary is the most thorough commentary available on Acts today.
In this second volume, Craig Keener covers chapters 3 through 14 studying the earliest Christians and the events that shaped the future of the nascent Christian church. Beginning with Peter and John's trip to the Temple, and Peter's speech in Solomon's Portico, Keener guides us all the way through Stephen's Speech, Saul's Conversion, Peter's vision, the earliest of Paul's missionary journeys, and all the way up to the threshold of the early Christianity's most defining moment: The Jerusalem Council.
Taking a socio-historical/rhetorical approach, Keener examines Acts verse-by-verse and uses the historical data to unpack and more fully explicate (exegete) the events described in the book of Acts. Interacting at length with scholarship, and exhaustively documented, Keener's work will provide everything serious students of Acts require for studying this pivotal New Testament document.
